Team Lead – Communications Unit

Main Responsibilities

Communications Co-ordination and Strategy

• Support senior management by providing communications advice that maximises impact and visibility of ECO key messages and work in line with the priorities of the Secretary General and the Organisations Annual Communications Plan (ACP)
• Take responsibility for the ongoing development and implementation of the ECO Communications strategy and visual identity aligning with the ACP and following the Organisations rules on branding and visual identity.
• Working closely with COM manage tailored communications for the Chief Economist as well as ECO Directors including for strategic engagements and identifying new opportunities.
• Work with teams in FO CSB and PRB in collaboration with COM to identify extract and promote key policy messages multiplying the reach of these messages and embedding them in key audiences.
• Identify training needs for ECO staff to improve communication skills (e.g. presentations writing for the web) and work with Human Resources Management (HRM) and COM to connect staff to appropriate training opportunities .
• Supervise the communications team liaising closely with the Front Office and ECO Management. Ensure good communication and teamwork and facilitate the team members professional development. Coordinate the work of the team taking into account peaks in workload.

Editorial oversight and media relations

• Work with authors and teams in FO CSB and PRB in reviewing and editing outputs to ensure quality control improve their readability and accessibility for different target audiences and ensure coherence with OECD guidelines and the ECO visual identity and communications strategy.
• Take responsibility for the strategic planning for key outputs and events taking into account the global news calendar stakeholders expectations and anticipating media headlines.
• As appropriate work on with COM relations with the media and the issuance of ECO news releases.
• Working with COM contribute to the production of promotional material including drafting and ensuring a presentation in line with the OECD visual identity.

Digital communications

• Oversee and develop content for the ECO web pages social media channels and events. Ensure consistency and coherence in the messages and content produced in line with the ACP and ECOs communications strategy and visual identity.
• Working with COM identify and make recommendations for new products emerging trends and dissemination channels and institutions and individuals to disseminate information.
• Establish and manage web key performance indicators and review web metrics reports.

Qualifications :

Ideal Candidate Profile

Academic Background

• A post-secondary education preferably a degree in communications journalism marketing or any other relevant field.

Professional Background

• A minimum of 5 years experience in communications in an international environment. Experience in working in a communications team. Experience in managing junior staff would be an asset.
• Proven ability to undertake strategic communications design planning and delivery.
• Strong knowledge of and professional experience in designing creating managing and evaluating online communications collaboration and social media platforms and methodologies (websites X Facebook blogs newsletters Instagram etc.)  and evaluating their success.
• Excellent knowledge of document and project lifecycles publishing constraints desktop publishing content organisation writing proofreading and editing skills.
• Ability to initiate and manage a continuing editorial process and to conceptualise and execute the online packaging of content.
• Very good knowledge of the OECDs work and a broad knowledge of the substantive work and goals of the OECD in general.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills and ability transforming complex messages into language suitable for non-technical audiences.
• Experience with creating visual assets for digital content using design software.

Tools

• Excellent knowledge of the communications tools and applications in use at the OECD and ECO or ability to learn new systems with ease to be able to lead advise and train external and internal stakeholders.
• Excellent IT skills including familiarity in using web tools and platforms web 2.0.
• Familiarity with desktop design tools would be an advantage.
• Experience with IT collaborative platform s (e.g. Sharepoint eShare Teams).
• Very good knowledge of the standard computer applications (Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint).

Core Competencies

• OECD staff are expected to demonstrate behaviours aligned to six core competencies which will be assessed as part of this hiring processes: Vision and Strategy (Level 1); Enable People (Level 2); Ethics and Integrity (Level 2); Collaboration and Horizontality (Level 2); Achieve Results (Level 2); Innovate and Embrace Change (Level 1).
• To learn more about the definitions for each competency for levels 1-3 please refer to OECD Core Competencies.

Languages

• Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) and knowledge of the other with a commitment to reach a good working level.
• Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.

Additional Information :

Closing Date

• This vacancy should be filled as soon as possible and applications should reach us no later thanmidnight 12 April 2026 (Paris time).

Contract Duration

Open-ended appointment with no foreseen end date.

Please note that our Rules and Regulations stipulate that the mandatory retirement age is 67.

What the OECD offers

• Monthly salary starts at 6 636EUR plus allowances based on eligibility exempt of French income tax.
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• Please note that the appointment may be made at one grade lower in the specified job family based on the qualifications and professional experience of the selected applicant.
• This vacancy may be used to create a pool of candidates for comparable positions both for open-ended and fixed-term functions. 

Selection Process

For retained candidates the selection process may include a video-recorded interview job-based assessment and panel interviews.

The OECD is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes the applications of all qualified candidates who are nationals of OECD member countries irrespective of their racial or ethnic origin opinions or beliefs gender sexual orientation health or disabilities.

The OECD promotes an optimal use of resources in order to improve its efficiency and effectiveness. Staff members are encouraged to actively contribute to this goal.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time